Ethereum’s price briefly collapsed from $100 to $13 on Coinbase Pro

Another day, another mad cryptocurrency anomaly. For a brief moment, the price of Ethereum ETH on Coinbase Pro (formerly known as GDAX) collapsed from almost $100 down to a measly $13.

The incident took place at around 6 AM UTC. Since then, the price of Ethereum – the third largest cryptocurrency by market cap after Bitcoin and Ripple – has bounced back to its usual trading rate of about $97. Indeed, it only took moments before its value climbed back from $13 to $97.

For the record, it appears that the anomaly solely affected the Ethereum price on Coinbase Pro’s USDC markets. For those unfamiliar, USDC is a dollar-pegged cryptocurrency, issued by fintech giant Circle (with some funding from mining behemoth Bitmain).

Shocked traders instantly took to social media to share screenshots of the unusual activity, with many left dumbfounded by the occurrence.

Hard Fork has since corroborated the crash indeed took place. Coinbase has yet to address the incident on its official channels.

Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, and flash crashes

This is hardly the first time the cryptocurrency market has seen such unexpected drops in price, more commonly known as “flash crashes.”

Indeed, this is at least the second time Ethereum has been in the middle of a flash crash.

Back in 2017, the price of the popular cryptocurrency, co-founded by Vitalik Buterin, collapsed from over $300 to just 10¢. As with today’s incident, its price swiftly recovered to $300 though.

Hard Fork has reached out to Coinbase for comment on this bizarre occurrence. Unfortunately, no representatives were available at the time of writing. We’ll update this piece accordingly if we hear back.